Greetings!

I'm glad to see our students settling in for the spring semester. March is a busy month for us at the Newark School of the Arts. We will enjoy Women's' History Month at the School with our annual "Strong Women" Art exhibit, opening on March 22. We will celebrate women through song at a special Women's History Music Hour featuring guest artist Victoria Griswold on March 24. Our student music hours will be on March 10 and 31.

See you at the School!

Dara Falco
Executive Director

See another class you want to join? Playing piano, but also have the desire to learn how to dance? It's not too late to enroll in our classes. We have 14 weeks remaining in the semester. Rates for remaining group classes are now $210; for private music instruction $448. Financial aid further reduces your cost by 30%.

Group Special - if you are currently enrolled in one group class, you may get the second at a 30% discount. The same discount is made available to those in private music instruction who also wish to take a group class.

Join us to experience our students' performance. These recitals are free and open to the public.

Be our guest and enjoy the opening of our 3rd Annual Strong Women's Art Exhibit. The exhibit will be up from March 13th through April 20th.

Celebrate Women's History Month through song. Pianist Victoria Griswold will be giving a recital of four women composers, including two outstanding African American composers; Florence Price and Margaret Bonds. The other women included are Fannie Mendelssohn and Maria Szymanowska. This event is free and open to the public.

The Newark School of the Arts was awarded a grant for our ICAN Program (Initiative for Children's Arts in Newark) for $18,928. This grant, along with funds from the Aviation Development Corporation and the Rivendell Foundation have allowed us to offer a 60% discount for first time students to the School who are Newark Residents. In addition, we were awarded a grant for $53,730 for new windows and waterproofing last year - we hope that work will commence by April. This year we were awarded $125,000 to be used towards the replacement of our 1940's elevator. We hope that the conversion will be accomplished during our fall term.

Lastly we wanted to share with you the receipt of a $100,000 grant from the Hearst Foundation. This long time funder supports our work every 3-4 years. Their contribution goes directly to fund the generous scholarship and financial aid that Newark School of the Arts offers its students.